The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-02-22
HELEN FRY
She Gives a Few of Her Cores
pOndents Away and Discovers
That Many Men Want
Wives.

surprise IQdL DluS lair W UtCOine
chronic, am going to tell the plain
truth about myself, and / know the
same statement will apply to hundreds
of other women, though they may not
be disposed to own it. For number
of years, have been signing over the
great empty space in my heart, and
another
MUCH LARGER IN MY ARMS,
when my hands were clasped and not
withstanding my great desire to marry
happily and the wealth of affection
had to bestow, each succeeding new
years day my journal recorded some
thing like this: "Still unclaimed,
another year gone, and my heart,
home and arms empty" That was
about all | wished to write, further
comments would have been unpleas
ant to read. for bitter brooding dispair,
and | confess sometimes
quite a fierce anger took
possession of me at the thought that
all my qualifications and value as
wife remained unrecognized, but again,
counter reflections famed before my
mental vision some other stubborn
facts. How could one be
supposed to know that
/ would make a good wife, or, indeed,
that [ wanted to marry at all? L
dared not tell any one and if accused
of such thing was expected, as all
single women are, to blush furiOusly,
and positively deny anything so un-
feminine ami unwomanly, for it is
certainly an awful thing to be known
about a young woman that she wants
to marry and caunot. Well, on last
New Years day wrote thusly 'forty
applicants up to date for the position
of husband" and just here is where
the surprise comes in, that so many
men want to marry who cannot, at
lest do not. What and where is the
trouble? Men have the right to seek
wives and | should think when one
wanted to marry he would propose to
any woman he saw, whom he thought
would make desirable wife, until he
had secured one. Now / am getting
letters daily, and not from Missouri
alone either but from every state In the
union seeking my correspondence or
personal acquaintance, from men
whose ages ranges from fifteen to sew
enty years, who say they want wives
and have wanted them all
their lives. but have not had the
courage to tell woman so
when they did see one they fancied
(And just here L will say that such a
confession does not augment the
chances of any one with me; [ do not
admire, and certainly should not wait
for husband, a man who was so
cowardly, for cowardice becomes ty-
ranny, when there is nothing to be
afraid Of Just think of it And
while / do not purpose betraying the
trust that any one has reposed in me
by answering nv "ad, still | want to
tell some of the
FUNNY THINGS READ.
An advertisement, of course. is open
to all classes, and since conceit brings
down the scales against good sense, In
quantity if not quality, and since one
might unite or combine rather, IN
their description of map they wanted
to find, the size of Goliath, the
strength of Samson, and the wisdom
of Solomon, every beardless unfiedged
dwarf and ignorant schoolboy would
read and think it described him per-
fectly. The most of my letters are
from persons I would prefer not to
hear from at all, but the dignity of
monumental Washington would be
eternally upset if his unfortunate deaf
ness could be overcome long enough
to hear some of the letters
read which are sent to me by men
who want wives. One letter, for in-
stance, will be written with lead pen
Gil, in a course, irregular, uncultiva,-
ed hand, ON the cheapest tawdriest
note paper, while in one corner of
the sheet flames a gaudy boquet,
covering nearly half its surface, and
leading the Imagination to catch the
scent of the broad prairie, the con-
tents sounding something like this,
81 live at turkey-trot Mo haint got
nuthin abaed, never bin out of the
state (and | should judge nowhere in
it), but think could love you all
you want to be loved, and want a
wife bad" That's encouraging, is it
not? Another with sublime disre-
gard for the general traits of charac-
ter and appearance, | mention as de.
sirable writes, SCI measure four feet
eight inches in height, and not quite
so much around: as to money mat